Ari D. Brooks, M.D. is the Director of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery and Director of the Integrated Breast Center at Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Brooks is a fellowship-trained surgical oncologist with a special interest in breast, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, melanoma and sarcoma.

Dr. Brooks completed a 6-year premedical-medical program at Boston University and Hahnemann University School of Medicine, residency in surgery at NYU Medical Center and fellowship in Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Upon completion of his training, he was recruited to MCP/Hahnemann University, now Drexel University College of Medicine, where he achieved the rank of Professor of Surgery.
While at Drexel, he repeatedly received the Golden Scalpel Award for teaching of surgical residents. He is consistently listed as a Top Doctor in Philadelphia Magazine and Castle Connolly editions.

Dr. Brooks is a member of many professional societies and has more than 60 publications.
He was director of the Surgical Research and Translational Bioengineering Lab at Drexel. His interest in collaboration with Biomedical Engineering continues here at Penn. He is the author of multiple patents, and has helped develop multiple devices that are currently in clinical trials in breast cancer patients.

Dr. Brooks is the principal investigator on numerous grants, including a Susan G. Komen Foundation grant entitled “The Healthy Woman Project”, which has provided free breast cancer screening to the underserved women of Philadelphia for over 10 years.

Faculty Appointments

2013 - present

Professor of Clinical Surgery
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2005 - 2013

Associate Professor of Surgery
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Associate Vice Dean for Research – Biotechnology Innovation
Drexel
University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2011 - 2013

Staff Surgeon, St. Joseph’s Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2010 - 2014

Surgical Oncology Specialist, South Jersey Healthcare, Vineland, NJ
(negotiated a ‘leased employee’ deal for myself and at least one other Drexel surgeon to provide oncologic surgery expertise to the surgeons
there, and to help build an oncology practice for the hospital. Built a
busy general surgical oncology and breast practice at SJH)

2009 - 2013

Covering Surgeon, Roxborough Hospital

2009 - 2013

Vice Chair for Research, Department of Surgery
Drexel University
College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2006 - 2013

Covering Surgeon, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (built the
inpatient surgical service from opening day until early 2007 when they
hired their own chief; established a coverage contract for our department to cover weekends and holidays; hired as a ‘leased employee’ to provide surgical services 1-2 days/week for both outpatient consults and inpatient surgeries 3/10 - 8/11)

2005 - 2006

Staff Oncologic Surgeon, Graduate Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2004 - 2013

Co-Medical Director, Clinical Research Group
Drexel University
College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania